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Low riskNext report: Around Nov 4 (est.)
The short versionA profitable company with growing sales.
Going well
- Sales up 24% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 3.3% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (121 bought, 124 sold)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$37.94-1.4% that day
- Company value
- $874M
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 44.6x
- You pay about $45 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 0.56x
- Company value is 0.56 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 1.4%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 9%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 38%
- Debt as a share of company value
From ASTE's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jun '26$408.1M+24% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJun '26
Last 12 months: $1.6B, up 19% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 6.6% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.5.9%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.49x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.2.8%
- MissProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.8 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$20.7M
- MissShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+1.4% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.26.5%
- Revenue
- $1.4B
- +8.1% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +6.6%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $335.8M
- 0.49x equity
- Current ratio
- 2.49x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jun 30, 2026- Revenue
- $408.1M
- +23.6% YoY
- EPS
- $0.45
- vs $0.72
- Op. margin
- 5.0%
- -1.5 pts
- Gross margin
- 26.2%
- -0.5 pts
- Free cash flow
- $4.7M
- Share count
- +0.9%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 1.6
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
■Steady+3.3%Institutions added 3.3% to their holdings. 121 bought, 124 sold.
Shares held by institutions22.6M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+0.4%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.6x · $381.6M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
23MNext reportAround Nov 4 (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 5
- Results filedMay 6
- Results filedFeb 25
- Results filedNov 5, 2025
- Results filedAug 6, 2025
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.